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I'm actually puzzled by the fame of this much filmed story. It's a very ordinary novel, action packed but often illogical, sometimes outright illogical. It
touches upon two themes - human tendency to destroy the environment
while exploiting resources & then move on to newer pastures for more
exploitation, & the idea of not remaining ourselves but becoming something else as a result of some kind of foreign invasion. Former occupies so little time in the story as to be irrelevant. Becoming something else pervades the book, but in a form that left me untouched.
Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.
Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.
Be gentle to your cuckoo clock...
This is a war of nerves story: a single human protagonist against a vastly superior alien colonization scout. Of course, the human will win, eventually, with help from ...
Among the more riveting stories of Godwin. Not quite "The Cold Equations" (download text/radio adaptation), but pretty good.
A man driving down a road near his childhood hometown suddenly finds himself back 20 years - younger self, older town, his long dead mother still alive, ...
Finally the puzzle will reveal itself, helping him trivially escape to present.
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As the world is falling apart because everyone is falling in love, is jealous about the partner, cannot concentrate on anything else, etc, Dr Phyllis Sutton begins suspecting the cause might be biological.
She will isolate the new virus that increases the grandular activity, get infected herself, get fixed as cure is found, & finally get a relapse that isn't as dangerous...
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"Project Hush" is a top-secret project of US government - to build some sort of anti-nuclear-weapons system. It involves being the first to go to moon, & to set up some sort of military base there. And doing so in complete secrecy.
All goes well with the landing. A little scouting around their base's ("dome") location reveals yet another, already existing, dome! A scout is sent to find out more, & finds something astonishing...
In some ways, this is a van Vogt style story. Not as much impact, but an interesting read. And a funny one too.
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A fast moving action story, with some ruminations on politics & society. In a world where man has began building cities on the surface of, & at the bottom of, seas, & has also began farming on the ocean's surface.
I've collected some quotes from this story here.
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Note: This will be the only post tonight. I was running late, & foolishly took up a novel for today's main post - Jack Vance's "The Languages of Pao" - rather than a short story, & am now out of time. But its writeup is partly done, so may be will have it sometime over next few days.
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Of late, Project Gutenberg has been adding short fiction from old magazines rather regularly. Only problem is - their feed contains little information to isolate genre stories from other stuff. Sometimes, even opening the linked page is not enough; I need to open the actual content page to be sure. Occasionally, I miss it altogether but find the stuff when reconciling links from other sources.
In fact, during my daily troll of various feeds, Project Gutenberg is where I seem to be recently spending most time. I'm not sure I've motivation to make this is a regular feature, but here is today's haul (sorted by publication date):
I'd never even heard the name of author, & what a lovely tale!
At Internet Archive.
Among the authors: Alan E Nourse, Gordon R Dickson, Mack Reynolds.
Note: I could not see the month/year of publication on either title page or ToC page; it only says Vol 1 No 3. Month/year noted above is from annotation accompanying it at Internet Archive.
Related: Old "pulps".
I might have liked it more without its monster hunting parts, but it's still a decent enough read.
May be 2 years back, I recall a Discovery or National Geographic show in India that reconstructed an ancient predator. A predator whose hunting technique was very similar to that in this story.
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